Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Clarification of Oral Parliamentary Question Answer

Lord Gardiner of Kimble: My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement. I made a Written Ministerial Statement on 2 March (HCWS569) to correct an answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Scott Mann) during Oral Questions to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on Thursday, 4 February (HC Deb, col 1061). That statement corrected my previous reply so that it referred to an ‘enforcement undertaking’, rather than an ‘enforcement order’. I wish to clarify that the enforcement undertaking was entered into voluntarily by E & JW Glendinning Ltd and the Environment Agency and was not ordered by the Court. The Environment Agency discontinued the prosecution as a result of the enforcement undertaking. The enforcement undertaking does not relate to the “major pollution incident” to which my hon. Friend referred   


This statement has also been made in the House of Commons: 
HCWS715